'straitlaced' definitions:
Definition of 'straitlaced'
From: WordNet
adjective
Exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts" [syn: priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian]
Synonyms of 'straitlaced'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- authoritarian,
- bigot,
- bigoted,
- borne,
- censorious,
- closed,
- constricted,
- cramped,
- creedbound,
- deaf,
- deaf to reason,
- demure,
- dogmatic,
- dour,
- evangelical,
- fanatical,
- firm,
- fundamentalist,
- genteel,
- hard,
- hidebound,
- hyperorthodox,
- illiberal,
- impliable,
- inexorable,
- inflexible,
- insular,
- iron,
- ironbound,
- ironclad,
- ironhanded,
- libertine,
- literalist,
- literalistic,
- little,
- little-minded,
- mean,
- mean-minded,
- mean-spirited,
- mid-Victorian,
- muscle-bound,
- narrow,
- narrow-hearted,
- narrow-minded,
- narrow-souled,
- narrow-spirited,
- nearsighted,
- obdurate,
- obstinate,
- old-maidish,
- orthodox,
- overmodest,
- parochial,
- petty,
- precisianist,
- precisianistic,
- prig,
- priggish,
- prim,
- prissy,
- procrustean,
- provincial,
- prudish,
- purblind,
- purist,
- puristic,
- puritan,
- puritanic,
- puritanical,
- Quakerish,
- relentless,
- rigid,
- rigorist,
- rigoristic,
- rigorous,
- rockbound,
- Sabbatarian,
- sanctimonious,
- shortsighted,
- small,
- small-minded,
- smug,
- staunch,
- stiff,
- stiff-necked,
- straightlaced,
- strict,
- stubborn,
- stuffy,
- unbending,
- uncatholic,
- uncharitable,
- uncompromising,
- ungenerous,
- unliberal,
- unrelenting,
- unyielding,
- Victorian